sinking divers have reached the room inside the ship where around forty children were trapped as the boat began to sink they were holding a party there because there were so many of them it's thought that they were not able to get out and drowned in that room first came terror and tragedy. the boat leans a bit there are three of them in the cabin my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin door holding his child when the wave crashed into them and he lost grip of my grandson he said he swim towards the light and made it out alive but i can find my grandson or daughter in law. now amidst the grief comes the anger and the questions. like if you do your job you don't understand anything. the bulgarian pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never have been on the volga atoll. as the bog area passed us two hours before it looked an awful

condition of their don't approve the way it's going to be for it would never have been allowed to sail that growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement of the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked in the ocean sea exits are not long ago in the twenty three hours we travelled on these modes he was in a poor condition then yes he crashed most serial times during her trip there would have to stop for some layers because the engine was working properly the vessel was first built in one nine hundred fifty five and as recently as last month was given official clearance to sail. despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working tell me they noticed water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat wind down through quickly all of this will come to the fore when the ship itself is raised to the surface for investigation but it's the how ring

accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise the told the real story we still hope to do was to have survived the accident in the book it all some other way but we still believe that our little angel is allowing for the start of the didn't is that people were basically buried alive in time metal coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she small i too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone rescue workers will continue their efforts throughout the coming hours days but hope has now gone they will find anyone else alive leaving just the shock and grief. see the ball go back some to watch. the scenes of terrible anguish and now also growing anger after claims that two vessels passed the cruise ship as it sank but did nothing to help a criminal case has been launched against those ships captains we have more on the

human side of this tragedy a click away for you at r.t. dot com fight an interview with a diverse working at the scene who give a harrowing account of their underwater search for dozens of bodies in poor visibility you can read that and further news and analysis at r.t. dot com twenty four hours a day. well it could off years are ready to go according to the french foreign minister allen your pay reports say paris has been engaged in negotiations with emissaries of the libyan leader and the rebels as are here daniel bushell reports this comes as president sarkozy is pushing for a swift end to the conflict to give him an election campaign boost. not tell me which. books is like bragging will destroy the repos lives they're often wrong and gets a mill city surprise i french foreign minister should pay both did france would win libya in quotes days or weeks the war's into

a fourth month no final round inside the last sarkozy with his western allies seeing short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits being libya's rebels but on some somalia wench to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have the fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention in the country. giving. none of. this. witnesses.

of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten should be oh yeah. for all it's categorically ruled out sending room troops to take sports predict is the only way to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake rocher up steam did the un's votes warning as bombs would bring havoc in libya which would you play said the latest tool to help support so you love ruffle quote lloyd lee diplomats speak for up. with elections just annoying months away psagot advisors said a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion crash for france's deeply unpopular president. so because these are

jogging fans excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring is turning into a mouse and the new bush will see paris. steven brown contributing editor a front page on line magazine says the french are looking for an honorable way out of libya. france has just recently called for the rebels to negotiate with gadhafi and said the bombing will stop as soon as the air at the negotiating table that shows to me that nato is surrendering the surrendering process has begun and i think. he is continuing just putting up a front of the moment to looking for a way sort of peace with honor withdrawal they can be they thought was going to be an easy victory. i said way back when and then they should i've negotiated with members tend their ground troops in the media glee the rebels were too weak to defeat a model of what they were thinking they simply got caught up in. their own human

rights. going through the u.n. waging war of the u.n. and this is the result you know there's no decision has cost tens of millions of dollars civilians are being killed libyan civilians and now they've had to ask here in. southern libya to protect the oil facilities i think he's the worst criminal than. shows of the war was never both protecting libyan civilians it was a vote making sure the oil stayed safe with britain and france questions over the conflicts in libya have also been raised in washington i visit there russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said gadhafi has no future in the libya and must step down or he's got a has more. foreign minister lavrov said colonel gadhafi must step down and there is no place for him in levy his future and that's a view shared by the obama administration as well we support the if we can you know initiative to start negotiations between the representatives of three representatives of three pollutants representatives so the big guys in the national

council on the understanding that good definition of course would not have any place in the future. and the future would not participate. discussions he also repeated that moscow sees the actions of the allied forces there as violation of the un mandate he said that the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as you can do whatever you want but there must be limits to any intervention what moscow sees is the west now clearly taking sides in a civil war and extending the conflict to u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russia for legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge

that russia has been getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but it did it can do it continued recruiting new members so the bottom line is words are good but words even legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation. stay with us here on our team is still to come this hour we'll look at the continuing saga they were porters illegally getting people's private information and asked that this be a threat to the country's national security. and we talked with an independent journalist and offered to find out who could benefit from the assassination of the president's brother. but first wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in

a london court where he's appealing against an earlier ruling to extradite him to sweden world's most famous some would say notorious whistleblowers wanted there for questioning or sexual assault allegations but supporters fear that he'll be nice if sent to stockholm he'll end up in the hands of the u.s. government or his lawyer emmett has the latest from london. has hired an entirely new legal team full appeal he's fought the old old laws and he's got people who are much more have much more experience in criminal law and they're much more concerned with the ins and outs the old e.u. your and specifically the european arrest warrant they're all doing that the european arrest warrant enough case is invalid because they've essentially discrepancies between the allegations made and the testimonies and all of the two alleged victims that are full of charge is that they range between on multiple coercion to sexual assaults right down to rape they're also saying it's important to remember that no charges have been brought against our phones he's wanted for

questioning in sweden and safe on new mole now this case is slated to go through wednesday based appeal is with jack tate by the high courts that you and i saw this is about to take the extradition case right to dispute between courts and even on woods to the european court of human rights customs and his supporters have always been worried that one section to sweden they would he would be sent to the u.s. that this case was politically motivated and of course have noted that a grand jury in the u.s. is investigating wiki leaks and that some people in america would love to get hands on ourselves. the brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated at his home in kandahar reports say ahmed wali karzai was shot dead by the chief of his security the taliban's claim responsibility for the attack that they've called their biggest achievement in ten years cars i headed to khandahar province of all over the volatile region on the border with pakistan he was often accused of having

links with the taliban and afghanistan's illegal drug trade earlier we spoke with independent journalist and author gerry van dyke who was held for forty five days by the taliban in two thousand and eight he says the killing leaves washington without anyone to rely on when it comes to regional security. well the cars it was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to now focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon you know what end i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate their force someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know

yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information it's going to take time before we find out who's responsible but in the short term we do know that there's a power vacuum throughout all of southern afghanistan he who holds kandahar holds that country because in the one nine hundred eighty s. when i worked as a route newspaper reporter in afghanistan there were negotiations between the then mujahideen the united states the soviet union pakistan pakistan does not want to watch from the sidelines when pakistan says that there should be direct negotiations between the united states and the taliban what it is also saying is that pakistan wants to be at that table also because don't forget most of your viewers know this the leadership of the taliban is not enough ghana stand like al-qaeda it is in pakistan it cannot operate there independently it has to have institutional backing. remember all the stories we're covering are available along

with interviews blogs and analysis on r t. online you can also check out latest video footage of a plane a rescue operation only hours after a burning aircraft crash landed on a lake in eastern siberia. here's a reason to look before crossing the street and watch out on these roads a street racer pushes his sports car to the max in central moscow but his need for speed ends in our image. outrage grips of britain over allegations aimed at several newspapers in rupert murdoch's media empire including getting secret information about the queen and former prime minister gordon brown that as senior police officers have been questioned by m.p.'s over claims they knew about the scandal richard addus editor in chief of the day the day online news service thinks the hack data could be misused and not just by the tabloids but i think that where this does become

a christian for national security is the idea that police is selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family in the prime minister yes well this is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terrorist organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so yes it's very serious but i think what people like to talk to and. expecting is full the scandal to go up through rebecca brooks who's the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself many people say should step down and take a break. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a protestant parade has again turned violent in northern ireland's capital belfast bonfires were lit to mark the annual twelfth of july celebrations catholic protesters threw stones and fire bombs at protestants and police security forces tried to separate the opposing factions at least seven police officers were injured

in the attacks the twelfth of july marks the end of the annual protestant marching season and commemorates a seventeenth century victory over catholic forces. nasa astronauts and back to the international space station after a six hour long space walk some four hundred kilometers above the earth two astronauts were working to retrieve a broken section of the s.s. and pack it aboard the shuttle atlantis they also say age and experiment in robotic refueling the shuttle leaves the station next week and its lending will wrap up the u.s. space shuttle program after thirty years in service. up next start he speaks with independent journalist terry mason who questions the official aim of nato intervention in libya interview coming up.

where have you been and what have you discovered what have you found in your time here. first of all it's quite obvious that the usa wanted to answer the war at the same time with libya and syria. that we should was made public by john bolton in two thousand and two the plan was passed over to france and britain who decided to bring it to life in november last year certainly it was necessary to have very fiery whether an attempt of it had been made before that that could be organized by

france or britain the attempt failed in october. after this failed attempt another coup was planned in this is just killing all the heads of the libyan national congress if they got together in one place during a big celebration. that failed though because the situation in the region changed after the revolutions in tunisia and egypt at that moment france and britain decided to carry out a.b.r. operation and present this good town as a people's her belly and. what was the aim of. every member of a call ition pursues their own particular goal it is necessary that everyone should be interested in the war for however. in terms of basic goals a book that is worth noting changes that have started in africa like those which begin large areas of the middle almost all feel there are already two zones being created first of all it was decided to create if west african soon have all this

with ivory coast as the center which in fact explains the french intervention in the ivory coast go with after that it was planned to obtain a considerable part of northern africa except on egypt the latter being part of northern africa represented another block. in case old states are a divided through control would be spread first to morocco and if northern africa is revamped the conflict would have to be appropriate if that if not between shiites and sunnies as was attempted in the middle east but between arabs and the berbers this is where the real source of their dancing in god's ease. our civilians dying and that. indeed starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives of civilians were not taken into account and this is just the beginning of it is there either

a question of the rearrangement of this region and we are yet to see a series of wars so what's that's the strategy. is it will be the initial goal of this thread to do was to overthrow the people's government that was in power and to establish western authoritarianism in the country i believe though that they had actually given up the plan because of the military resistance to prove stronger therefore it was decided to act in a different direction of the besides western t.v. channels that don't speak of repression and rebellion anymore but it was civil war just trying to prepare a public opinion for a declaration that there is a need to divide the country into two parts that they will say they were protecting the civilians. and that is enough with their blinding to set up a base in a god to land and deploy their troops there and in about ten years to start conquering africa. there really is an even

a more serious problem we will big nato has begun a campaign on destroying the psychological resistance of the country's leaders who've built this campaign and visit us killing their families to meet michael we can't reach them because they never stay in the same place at the end they are protected so our sound isn't too good because in their homes you get a children's bedroom you could be a target or you can systemic method of pointed liquidation of children apparently being the main target you know but a task is to simulate their parents do you think the truth based truth could ever be established could ever be recognized. we think that the lies have begun to dissipate at least to some extent for instance by the time of the un security council vote everyone decided on the bases over the reports submitted to the council and the security council was certain that during the ride some demonstrations and been ghazi that for rides the government killed six thousand

citizens a terrible number but now five months later the prosecutor at the international criminal court which accused the libyan leadership has reduced the number after many inspections it has been proven that the previous number one strong weapon now the prosecutor is building up he's evidently on two hundred in eight victims instead of six thousand several more inspections will turn out that there were no victims at all then what happened in the ghazi is quite different from what we were told to before that in fact that it was a staged event has international mainstream media and how they respond to this into the control of media truly happened several times a day that one of something happens for the journal. lists are brought to the site to show them after which they make their reports telling quite different things then they witnessed people for example a form was shelled several days ago you know nobody knew why perhaps it was

a mistake for journalists who were brought in to show them what happened all confirmed it was a form full stop on the day that followed the footage was shown on many satellite channels with captions from that he had been shot. and that he could drop his troops had caused the destruction despite what the jorn list they had seen with their own eyes. channel. l.r.b. i was the first channel to that it is a us finance a channel belonging to saudi arabia as it will be based in the united arab emirates the same report was repeated by many other satellite channels but this is a deliberate policy. also we saw a c.n.n. report not long ago from a mobile phone you about gadhafi soldiers raping women it was surely no pleasure to see the footage so some frames were blurred it turned out though that someone

recognized the audiotapes being from a libyan who are no movie but they are not so many only being a porno movies so that one was widely known so that fragment was used to claim that it had been a rape could duffy's troops at the think it was a deliberate montage with the not a mistake to say demanded that the satellite broadcasts of libyan channels are stopped all over the world they have already shut down the arab said channels despite being a stakeholder and now they are shutting down. to prevent libya's version being heard in the arab world they have already shut them down on the other satellites are broadcasting to other countries to thank you very much for being with us today .

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six thirty am in moscow these iraqi have lines the first funerals for victims of sunday's pleasure boat tragedy on the boulder river are held on a day of national mourning across russia many bodies remain inside the sunken ship including children trapped in a play room when the boat went down. france's foreign minister claims the libyan leader moammar gadhafi could be ready to go as paris seats a diplomatic solution to a conflict they thought would be a simple knockout despite the french parliament backing the military occupation operation anxiety is growing over the mission that was meant to last weeks and is now into months with no end in sight. controversial weiqi leaks founder julian

assange returns to a london court to fight his extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes his supporters maintain it's an excuse to hand him over to the u.s. where he's wanted for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents and. financial guru max kaiser names and shames those who he thinks is our behind the world's financial turmoil and this time it has something to do with a fridge stay with us and find out the report. max kaiser this is the cause or report let's get all the details from stacey or tax

europe declares war on ratings agencies a chorus of policymakers from europe and across the world have denounced the moody's drastic downgrade of portuguese debt as an act of financial vandalism accusing the anglo-saxon rating agencies of driving states into bankruptcy and destabilizing the global system yeah that's right they call it financial vandalism or upping the rhetoric and we we've been talking about financial terrorism for months and months and months now they're upping their rhetoric they're going to get to the point now where they realize that this is in fact not vandalism which is a quaint way of saying terrorism they didn't accuse the son of in law of vandalism on nine eleven who never did that it was an act of terrorism mooney's s. and p. has pitched our financial terrorists and they are purposefully targeting these countries for destruction because they want their assets for nothing well portugal's new premier pedro passos coelho said moody's downgraded was.